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- English Word Pitier Definition One who pities.
- English Word Pities Definition of Pity
- English Word Pitiful Definition Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic.
- English Word Pitiful Definition Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.
- English Word Pitiful Definition To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable.
- English Word Pitiless Definition Destitute of pity; hard-hearted; merciless; as, a pitilessmaster; pitiless elements.
- English Word Pitiless Definition Exciting no pity; as, a pitiless condition.
- English Word Pitman Definition One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc.
- English Word Pitman Definition The connecting rod in a sawmill; also, sometimes, a connecting rod in other machinery.
- English Word Pitmen Definition of Pitman
- English Word Pitot's tube Definition A bent tube used to determine the velocity of running water, by placing the curved end under water, and observing the height to which the fluid rises in the tube; a kind of current meter.
- English Word Pitpan Definition A long, flat-bottomed canoe, used for the navigation of rivers and lagoons in Central America.
- English Word Pitpat Definition See Pitapat.
- English Word Pitta Definition Any one of a large group of bright-colored clamatorial birds belonging to Pitta, and allied genera of the family Pittidae. Most of the species are varied with three or more colors, such as blue, green, crimson, yellow, purple, and black. They are called also ground thrushes, and Old World ant thrushes; but they are not related to the true thrushes.
- English Word Pittacal Definition A dark blue substance obtained from wood tar. It consists of hydrocarbons which when oxidized form the orange-yellow eupittonic compounds, the salts of which are dark blue.
- English Word Pittance Definition An allowance of food bestowed in charity; a mess of victuals; hence, a small charity gift; a dole.
- English Word Pittance Definition A meager portion, quantity, or allowance; an inconsiderable salary or compensation.
- English Word Pitted Definition of Pit
- English Word Pitted Definition Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2.
- English Word Pitted Definition Having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the vascular parts of vegetable tissue.
- English Word Pitter Definition A contrivance for removing the pits from peaches, plums, and other stone fruit.
- English Word Pitter Definition To make a pattering sound; to murmur; as, pittering streams.
- English Word Pitting Definition of Pit
- English Word Pittle-pattle Definition To talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle.
- English Word Pituitary Definition Secreting mucus or phlegm; as, the pituitary membrane, or the mucous membrane which lines the nasal cavities.
- English Word Pituitary Definition Of or pertaining to the pituitary body; as, the pituitary fossa.
- English Word Pituite Definition Mucus, phlegm.
- English Word Pituitous Definition Consisting of, or resembling, pituite or mucus; full of mucus; discharging mucus.
- English Word Pity Definition Piety.
- English Word Pity Definition A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.